Posted on 11/26/2007 6:09:33 PM PST by dervish
Ping!
The only separation that needs to be done is to separate the Baathists and Islamofascists from their heads.
True, but the stuff burns like magnesium, and the ash is fine, friable, and deadly...
Were I them I'd use the lower grade NK fuel to learn all the tricks and traps of processing raw materials into bomb components, and apply that skill to the "good" Iranian stuff.
I’m disappointed in Hoekstra and Ros-Lehtinen. This sort of thing simply cannot be handled with all the important details being babbled around by the whole world. There are plenty of loose cannons in Congress who are either too stupid or too egomaniacal to care what damage could be done by releasing certain information.
The enemy MUST NOT know how much we know and how we came to know it. The only way to ensure that is to keep the information restricted to a very tiny circle of completely trustable people. IMO, Hoekstra and Ros-Lehtinen put their qualifications for that circle in doubt when they wrote their petulant rant in the WSJ.
I’d be very surprised if we aren’t able to detect the remains of a sizeable plutonium stash left at the site via remote satellite, but I do NOT want anyone publicly confirming my suspicion that we can. We — meaning the general public and the members of Congress cannot properly judge whether the Bush Administration is taking the right or wrong route with North Korea, without knowing everything they know and how they came to know it. On matters like this, we need to trust the President we elected and the inner circle of advisors he has in turn selected. There are plenty of matters which can and are handled under public scrutiny, to enable us to determine whether they can be trusted. That’s how we make need to make our decisions on Election Day.
I believe it is fairly difficult to ensure that there is no Pu-240 mixed in with the Pu-239. These extra little bits of isotype can supposedly enable a stray neutron to start a chain reaction just a little bit too soon in a gun-type device, leading to a dud or a weaker explosion. ~ billakay
This is a device also known as a neutron bomb...
Ref Bump
From your keyboard to God's eyes...
... *IRAN* certainly already has such a similar device built and stored.
The constant, resurfacing B***S*** that "the Iranian bomb is N years away" is just to keep the sheep from being spooked.
Syria may have been where Irans first viable warheads were being assembled. Could explain why the Iranians have in the short term been so vocal about making a bomb from scratch. 'Look at me over here'. 'I am making one from scratch and my public progress states I am 2 years away'. While these rants are occurring, the Iranians assemble one in Syria with components from various sources. Syria is also a prime location for striking both Israel and Baghdad with short range missiles. Iran might be back to Plan B. They may be forced to rely on their domestic skills now.
According to reports, Israel sent in a commando team to take samples and verify what was going on at the facility. The US supposedly required this before it would 'ok' the strike. So, no US capabilities need to be released to verify to the world what was struck within Syria. And no US personal are required for the Israelis to explain to the world what 'they' did. Israel also supposedly had an informant working within the complex.
A big BTTT
Yes. That and NK is not reliable so stop the Clintonesque talks which only tie our hands.
As to Syria as assembly factory, that’s what surrogates are for.
I suspect that they already have "demonstrator model" (or ten) hidden away somewhere in Iran where they have learned how to put these together - - assembling one in Syria to be placed on a medium range rocket that can hit Tel Aviv, which tells me that for all practical purposes the device is operational and WWIII really was avoided by the IAF raid
I disagree. Hoekstra and Ros-Lehtinen are acting as watch dogs here for a notoriously appeasement minded leftist Arabist State Department.
“On matters like this, we need to trust the President we elected and the inner circle of advisors he has in turn selected.”
I sure as heck don’t trust Rice, didn’t trust Powell/Armitage. I do/did trust John Bolton. It speaks volumes that he is now out of the government. He warned of this in 2003.
IMHO - The mainstream US Government has lost almost all credibility on the issue regarding Syrian nukes. The Israelis had to bring it to our attention. And then apparently we did not believe their intel. Heck, Dennis the Menace was in Syria while the strike occurred. Pelosi was recently over there negotiating and trying out new burkhas. While all that was occurring the Syrians were apparently assembling a nuclear weapon to annihilate Tel Aviv. And we do not even have to bring in the recent fumbling of the Saddam WMD issue. These Globalists are half witted fools at best. Why else would they turn their backs on defending the United States Constitution ?
By waiting we caught NK red-handed.
RE post 69. My first thought was, if NK gave the plutonium to Syria, why haven’t they sold some to Iran? Answer, they probably have and we are in big trouble.
Very plausible, but our prize for catching them 'red handed' is that we are now forcing them to negotiate in 'good faith'. And apparently we now have to remain silent about the genocidal behavior of the Norkies towards the Jews ?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.